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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea of opting out is a form of civil disobedience, not necessarily protecting one's own child from bogus scores, stress whatever.

If enough parents opt out on principle the test becomes null and void. It forces a re thinking of this particular test and the generalized testing culture.

I also work in a school and it all does stink. Follow the money on this.  It leads to testing companies, curriculum writers and the tech companies providing hardware, software and consultants.  [/quote]

I just don't buy this as a legitimate thing.  Without standardized testing you don't have any consistent or uniform way to assess student performance and achievement across schools.  You don't know where the problems are, or where the successes are.  You don't have a baseline, you don't know if your schools are getting better or worse, you really don't know much of anything other than random, disconnected tidbits of anecdotal information.

As for the "companies, curriculum writers and the tech companies providing hardware, software and consultants" - I also don't buy that.  It's your own school district that is controlling and making the decisions about what companies, curriculum writers, and tech companies to engage with.  There's absolutely nothing to say that savvy educators couldn't band together and disrupt the established vendors.  But, they don't...  instead they just sit on their asses and complain and misdirect blame every which way.  So, it's hard to find much sympathy there.[/quote]

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